Young, active conjugate strike-slip deformation in West Sichuan: Evidence for the stress-strain pattern of the southeastern Tibetan Plateau

International Geology Review

Volumn 54, Issue 9, 2012, Pages 991-1012

  Su, Zhe ^a,b,c   Wang, Erchie ^a,b   Furlong, Kevin P ^d   Shi, Xuhua ^d   Wang, Gang ^e   Fan, Chun ^f  

^a INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

^b Chinese Academy of Sciences   (China)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

^d PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e CHENGDU UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^f CHINA UNIVERSITY OF GEOSCIENCES   (China)

Author keywords

Chuan Dian crustal fragment; conjugate strike slip fault system; Tibetan Plateau; Wenchuan and Yushu earthquakes

Indexed keywords

ACTIVE FAULT; BASIN EVOLUTION; CRUSTAL DEFORMATION; CRUSTAL SHORTENING; DISPLACEMENT; KINEMATICS; PLATE CONVERGENCE; STRESS-STRAIN RELATIONSHIP; STRIKE-SLIP FAULT; TECTONIC EVOLUTION;

CHINA; HIMALAYAS; QINGHAI-XIZANG PLATEAU; SICHUAN;

EID: 84861796601     PISSN: 00206814     EISSN: 19382839     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00206814.2011.583491     Document Type: Review

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